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Salisbury Cathedral - VIII

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Yet another of the spewing heads that we walked straight past on our first perambulation of the cathedral.  It forms part of the monument to Simon of Ghent (died 1315), a fine tomb-chest, with a wide ogee arch over it.  This curious pointy-eared and long-haired man-beast balances a more naturalistic disgorging lion.  Each one lurks at the base of the arch, with foliage spewing out and forming part of the decoration around the arch itself. 

Also at Salisbury

• Many more examples of the green man at the Cathedral and elsewhere
• In the chapter house, a rare example of a triple head
• In the nave, a fourteenth-century clock, restored in 1956, formerly in the (now demolished) bell-tower.

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